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SolarShare Wins Phase Two “Energizing Rural Communities” Funding
Late last week we were informed that SolarShare Wisconsin Cooperative won $200k in the “Energizing Rural Communities” prize competition.
SolarShare Wisconsin Cooperative was one of 33 organizations nationally that won $200,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Energizing Rural Communities Prize. The cooperative plans to use these funds to continue providing opportunities for Wisconsinites to invest in local community scale solar projects. In 2023,SolarShare ...
WALLS
Robert Frost said it first and clear enough: “Something there is that doesn't love a wall.” His walls were stony ones, upended and broken by frosty, heaving ground. The walls I do not love are stony too, built not on pastureland, though, but in the hearts of men and women. These heart-stone walls, held fast by a mortar mix of fear and a very human bent for being right and those different, dead wrong. We, thus, protect our neat and tidy interior lawns from the invasive and rambunctiously threatening swamps and woods beyond our perimeters. This tangled, ...
Climate Change is Here, Wisconsin
For decades, enthusiasts have flocked to the Northwoods of Wisconsin during the winter to take advantage of everything Wisconsin has to offer. Our state relies on plentiful snowfall and frigid temperatures. The issue of climate change and how it affects our economy, must play a central role in this year’s election.
On one side of our political debate, politicians are still claiming that climate change is caused only by the cyclical nature of the environment; while on the other side, they admit that humans have a large role in creating this upward spiral of ...
VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS FOR CLIMATE ACTION
In August 2022, Biden and the Democrats passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) despite unanimous Republican opposition in both the House and Senate where, as president of the Senate, VP Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act#Legislative_history)
We who are climate-concerned should be grateful because Wisconsin has already gained nearly $1 billion of IRA climate benefits alone. (https://www.wmtv15news.com/2024/08/15/wisconsinites-celebrate-clean-energy-inflation-reduction-act-anniversary) Moreover, the IRA has ...
Vote Blue to Protect Mother Earth
North Carolina picking up the pieces after disaster.
Downed trees, power lines across 4 states
680,000 without power in Georgia
Nearly 1 million South Carolina homes and businesses in the dark as of early Sunday
Headlines for many months/years to come?
What will it take?
In Washington, D.C., Republicans fight tooth and nail against anything that will ward off the impacts of climate change, including voting AGAINST the Inflation Reduction Act.
In Madison, Wisconsin they make sure it’s more difficult than ever to discuss the ...
New ERA Award for Dairyland Power Cooperative Will Bring Cheaper Bills, Better Health, and Renewable Energy to Rural Wisconsin
For Immediate Release
Sepember 5, 2024
Laurie Lane: 608.215.0112
laura@healthyclimatewi.org
New ERA Award for Dairyland Power Cooperative Will Bring Cheaper Bills, Better Health, and Renewable Energy to Rural Wisconsin
La Crosse, Wisconsin – President Biden announced today that Dairyland Power Cooperative will receive nearly $573 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program. This funding will support Dairyland's procurement of 1,080 megawatts of clean energy through power purchase ...
ENVIRONMENT AND SPIRITUALITY SUMMIT
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VOTE FOR DEMOCRACY, NOT DICTATORSHIP
Noticeably absent in the speeches at the RNC was any mention of Project 2025, obviously shielding us from the true horrors of this project until after the election in November when a second Trump administration could put it in place. Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership, also called the unitary executive theory, is a 900-page guidebook created by an umbrella coalition of conservative think tanks including the Heritage Foundation. Although Donald Trump has claimed he doesn't know anything about Project 2025, many of the authors of this mandate were operatives in the Trump ...
Heart of the 7th CD Picnic
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 3, 2024
Democratic Candidates From Across Wisconsin To Speak at the “Heart of the 7th C.D.”
Picnic in Ojibwa, WI beginning at 1pm on Saturday, August 3. Ojibwa, WI
On Saturday, August 3, Democratic Candidates for the 2024 Primary and General Election
will speak to voters at a free brat barbeque and potluck in Ojibwa Park, in Sawyer County,
Wisconsin, south east of Hayward (W7911 State Highway 70, Ojibwa, WI). Invited candidate
speakers include Tony Evers, Tammy Baldwin, Ben Wikler, Sarah Rodriguiz, US 7 th
Congressio...
Frog Song, Earth Song and the Rights of Nature
Late in the afternoon, about three months ago my wife and I were given the opportunity to time travel right here in Central Wisconsin, and we took it. Time machines are stashed here and there in these parts, though to most they would look like a pond, or a small wetland, or even the little pockets of water that dot the woods each spring. I had just put away my ax after splitting some of next winter's firewood when we set off down the road. We had barely gone a hundred yards when we unexpectedly stepped through a kind of science fiction portal into a soundscape around two ...